Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.
He concluded that while the monopoly itself was not illegal, Microsoft's abuse of its power justified breaking the software giant in two.
The finding is in-line with previous rumors, but since Zambrini has made a hobby and small fortune breaking and breaking into iPhone software, it would be a report worth considering either way.
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If the ingenuity of the XO's hardware is impressive, the machine's software is truly ground-breaking.
The Czech software company enjoyed a record-breaking Q1 despite some uncertainty surrounding the resignation of CEO JR Smith.
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Unlocking a phone is distinct from a practice known as "jail-breaking" that opens up a phone so software from unofficial sources can be run on it.
Taking full control of the device, effectively jail-breaking the computer to run any ARM-compatible software, after that point is an exercise left to the user.
Breaking that covenant by putting out such a lousy piece of software hurt the company more than it would like to admit.
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Live streaming is also impossible thanks to a "bug" in the software that can't secure the session, breaking the corporation's copy protection system which only affects mobile devices.
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Broadwing's Cincinnati Bell subsidiary hopes to tap the software to measure results of campaigns, but is still just breaking in the project calendar.
But breaking down the results between U.S. government and private sector software, the government programs, 80% of which were built for federal agencies rather than state or local, came out worse.
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